U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.

  • Zier
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    611 hours ago

    Oh yay, let’s send all those wheelchair bound people into a dirt field to pick your cabbage.

  • SuiXi3D
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    2216 hours ago

    Ah yes, my elderly mother who has a tube coming out of her kidney because they had to remove her bladder will surely be a good replacement for someone well acclimatized for working outside, doing lots of physical labor. Sure. 🙄

    • @ramble81@lemmy.zip
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      28 hours ago

      I thought I read they’re not removing Medicaid for anyone over 60. The work requirement was only for 18-60.

      • @Brutticus@midwest.social
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        88 hours ago

        I work as a case manager supporting people with disabilities. Everyone from non verbal autism to cerebral palsy to the quadriplegics. This would be a death sentence, so it sounds like they want to massacre the disabled to me.

    • Diplomjodler
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      313 hours ago

      Where’s the rugged individualism here? Time for your mom to pull herself up by her bootstraps!